Nation State ‘Increasingly Irrelevant’ for Blockchain Startups, Study Finds
Startup networker Blockchain Angels’ analysis highlights the US as “heavily invested in Bitcoin” amid the overall “increasing irrelevance of the nation state” for Blockchain businesses. First Mover Advantage? The findings, posted by parent company Outlier Ventures’ head of research and partnerships Lawrence Lundy last week, sought to make sense of the....
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Some experts believe that the unique qualities of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin may be the answer to ending involuntary taxation as well as the nation state sooner rather than later. Stopping the monster in his tracks requires starving it of what it survives on. Cointelegraph sourced the views of experts within the crypto landscape about whether this assertion is in the affirmative. Beginning of the end. As P.J O’Rourke noted, giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. They will mess up, and alas that is what we are witnessing today....
Like the printing press before them, the internet and Bitcoin’s blockchain innovation are irrevocable forces driving the end of nation-state power.